Little Somborne is a hamlet in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, 2 miles SE of Stockbridge, consisting of a few dwellings and farm buildings clustered around a minor crossroads. The church of All Saints is a single cell building whose chancel has been removed and the arch blocked. There is a timber bell turret over the W gable, and the long-and-short quoins at the W angles together with a lesene, or pilaster strip, surviving in the N wall indicate a pre-Conquest date. The church is of rendered flint rubble painted cream. The S doorway is 12thc but completely plain, and the N doorway is also plain but square headed. The chancel arch is the only feature recorded here.

Little Somborne was held by Godwine before the Conquest, and by Bernard Pauncevolt in 1086. It was assessed at 2 hides in 1066 but only 1 virgate in 1086. In 1166 it was held by Humphrey Puncefoot, and by the 13thc it was held by Arnulf de Mandeville from Lemuel Pauncefoot who held it from the Bohun Earl of Hereford. The advowson of the church was granted by John Briwere to the Priory of Mottisfont, the grant being confirmed by King John in 1204. It later became a chapelry attached to King's Somborne church and fell into disrepair in the 1960s, eventually being made redundant. In 1975 it was placed in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund, the predecessor of the Churches Conservation Trust, which now looks after it.

Dalton and Sawyer provide more information about the building sequence, although much of it is speculative. In their view the original building was a short, tall Anglo-Saxon 2-cell building occupying the W half of the present church. The Normans removed the chancel, lowered the nave walls and extended the nave eastwards, nearly doubling its original length. They added a new short chancel whose arch we can see today, and this extremely short chancel is marked out on the ground at the E end. The problem lies in the shortness of the chancel, built at a time (c.1170-80 to judge by the trumpet scallops) when chancels elsewhere were being lengthened.